Cover art: Francisco Goya, A Way of Flying: Artist’s proof, etching and drypoint,
collection of Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid
As If:
As If: Variations on Enrique Anderson-Imbert by Steven Cramer
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Praise for As If: Variations on Enrique Anderson-Imbert by Steven Cramer
“[W]hat was born originally as prose reemerges here as succinct lyric poems…. [T]the poet has made sure that the playfulness and imaginative reach of the fiction remained intact; the poetry, while distinct, feels to me like a dream-cousin to the original…. Reading through this set of poems, I believe that [Cramer]… reminds us that there are many more experiences…to invite into our celebratory lives, than we’ve yet to imagine.”
—Steven Ratiner, Red Letter Poetry
“Steven Cramer’s variations on the work of Enrique Anderson-Imbert are complicated and hilarious and spooky. I love that two-horned unicorn.”
—Kevin Prufer
About the Author
As If: Variations on Enrique Anderson-Imbert is Steven Cramer’s first chapbook. His previous seven books are The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (Galileo Press, 1987); The World Book (Copper Beech Press, 1992); Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (Lumen Editions/Brookline Books, 1997); Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande Books, 2004)—winner of the 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and named a 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book—Clangings (Sarabande Books, 2012); Listen (MadHat Press, 2020), long-listed as a “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book; and Departures from Rilke (Arrowsmith Press, 2023). His poems and reviews have appeared in “The Atlantic Monthly,” “Field,” “Kenyon Review, “The Nation,” “The New Republic,” “The Paris Review,” “Ploughshares,” “Poetry,” and other journals. His work is represented in anthologies such as The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Autumn House Press, 2005 and 2011), The Book of Villanelles (Knopf Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series, 2012), and The POETRY Anthology, 1912-2002 (Ivan R. Dee, 2002). He has also written essays for Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press, 2005); Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Middlebury College Press, 1996); and Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W.S. Merwin (WordFarm, 2012).
Recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, he has taught literature and writing at Bennington College, Boston University, M.I.T., and Tufts University, and he founded the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
